Example sentences of "[noun] [to-vb] the [adj -est] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Thomas wished his sons to enjoy the best education he could provide , partly as a means of fulfilling their intellectual potential , but even more as a necessary upward step on the social-economic scale . |
| 2 | The restructuring has not only provided the opportunity to gather the best of our expertise at the new centres and better serve our clients through local offices but will also provide for much greater efficiency and make us better placed to meet the ever changing demands of the 90s . |
| 3 | The opportunity to enjoy the finest food and wine and to relive the 450-year history of England 's most famous country inn , is offered to National Trust members at £195.00 per person , including VAT , and is applicable for any two nights between 1st November , 1990 and 31st March , 1991 . |
| 4 | Yet if Eyre irritated those who desired no truck with the mystery of things , he revealed an unfashionable — though much admired — willingness to see the best in humanity . |
| 5 | ‘ But is n't it the case , ’ I ask him , ‘ that while people are piling into the cinemas to see the worst exports of Hollywood , they are also piling in to see our own films , such as Alan Parker 's The Commitments , which has after all just won the Bafta award for best film . ’ |
| 6 | Open Standards offer freedom … freedom to get the most from your existing investment , freedom to acquire the latest technology , freedom to choose the system that fits your needs most closely , regardless of vendor . |
| 7 | ‘ It has been my privilege to see the best of England over the years , sir , within these very walls . ’ |
| 8 | A unique opportunity to see the largest collection of holograms presently on display in the U.K. with its continually growing and changing collection of well over 200 holograms . |
| 9 | The shape matrices are then tested against those of the appropriate sub-dictionaries to find the best match , either between the unknown word and a dictionary entry , or a composite for suffixed forms . |
| 10 | But until the moment he scored the equalising goal , the article claimed , ‘ if someone had held a referendum to find the worst player on the field , Gascoigne would have deserved a large chunk of the votes — or maybe all of them . ’ |
| 11 | The aligned sequence dataset was analysed with PAUP 3.0 ( ref. 20 ) using the Branch and Bound algorithm to find the shortest tree(s) . |
| 12 | In 1762 he was involved in the clash between moderate and evangelical factions over appointments of clergy to Edinburgh charges , and his well-meaning attempts to secure the best qualified candidates and to appease all sides provoked further animosity over civil and judicial promotions . |
| 13 | This month we 're starting a trial to discover the best-tasting strawberries . |
| 14 | While Democrats in Congress gave support to the President 's decision to launch the biggest US military operation since the Vietnam War , Russia expressed ‘ deep concern ’ for what it dubbed gunboat diplomacy which violated the UN Charter . |
| 15 | The , the result of this , this constraint on us is that it reduces our opportunity to secure the best returns available . |
| 16 | Loving in truth , and fain in verse my love to show , That she ( dear she ) might take some pleasure of my pain ; Pleasure might cause her read , reading might make her know ; Knowledge might pity win , and pity grace obtain ; I sought fit words to paint the blackest face of woe , Studying investions fine , her wits to entertain ; Oft turning others ' leaves , to see if thence would flow Some fresh and fruitful showers upon my sunburnt brain . |
| 17 | Come on our trips to see the best of Rhodes . |
| 18 | It should also be noted that The Gentleman 's Magazine allowed an anonymous poet to indulge the sincerest form of flattery in 1752 , by publishing a pastiche of Leapor 's religious poetry [ see GM , 22 ( 1752 ) , 529 ] . |
| 19 | It claimed customers would benefit from new EC regulations by shopping around the Continent to find the lowest car prices . |
| 20 | MAUREEN Baines gave a flipping good performance when she took part in a contest to find the best pancake tosser in the North-East . |
| 21 | DALLAS lawyer Bryan Garner has started a contest to find the worst examples of legal writing in Texas . |
| 22 | And when she was tired , she still walked round and round the shops to find the cheapest food . |
| 23 | He has now launched a scholarship to find the best young cricketers in England . |
| 24 | It is clearly in the interests of the Royal Navy and of the taxpayer that there should be competitive tendering to obtain the lowest price . |
| 25 | Of late , the Laney range has focused on solid state technology to fuel its best-selling Linebacker range , resisting the current fetish for sticking a single valve into the preamp section in an attempt to provide the best of both worlds . |
| 26 | They turned into a quieter street where open shutters gave a view of craftsmen bent over worktables placed at the front of their shops to catch the best of the morning light . |
| 27 | We will mount a drive against school truancy , and set up a Task Force to find the best ways of co-ordinating the work of local agencies helping young people at risk of becoming offenders . |
| 28 | the front seat belts are height adjustable while the lap belt is attached to the seat to provide the best protection , whatever the seat angle |
| 29 | He began by telling the machine all about Zambia , to which it responded sagely , ‘ In humanity 's attempt to obtain the best of both genders , it appears to have harvested the worst . ’ |
| 30 | Arrangements for exhibitors at the 1993 fair are being streamlined in an attempt to create the best possible climate for business . |